Medical Xpress January 10, 2025
The distance between a patient’s home and an abortion-services facility where they would seek care significantly influences how they receive birth-control medications, according to a study published Jan. 8 in the American Journal of Public Health.
“Basically, the farther the patients resided from an abortion facility, the more they were depending on the pills being mailed to them,” said Dr. Emily Godfrey, a UW Medicine OB-GYN and family medicine physician. She was the paper’s co-lead author.
The research began at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when receiving abortion medication via telehealth and through the mail was novel, Godfrey said. Over the study span and beyond, “there was exponential growth” of patients opting to receive their pills via telehealth and...